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I swear to god if Blofeld calls himself Dougie in Bond 25, I'm done. :))
Now forget everything you know.
It's an obvious wink to this fella....
Which in hindsight makes perfect sense, as they are both 007
Which would entirely have been part of Eon's thinking: I mean, if I had a news channel I'd say 'The New 007 Is A Woman!' too, because it's a great headline. It's irresistible.
I quite enjoy those Collider rants, even though their critical opinion is of little worth to me. Kind of like when Kermode reviews a Michael Bay film.
-Valentin Zukovsky, probably.
We'll surely see plenty of fan art eventually – either after the release of the trailer (if she features, which I guess she will), or when we see more on set photos of her.
Interestingly, we haven't seen much of her yet. It's mostly been Bond, M and Moneypenny.
You say “it doesn’t serve the story” or “make the film better” to have a black female character. Well, I strongly disagree. Women of colour are so hugely misrepresented in film that I genuinely believe if there is a character that can be played by a white woman or a black woman, then we should give the role to the black woman. You might argue this is unfair - but it is already unfair, and it is already massively skewed in favour of white actors. Do you really think it doesn’t serve the story to have characters that reflect the world, or do you think films should just have white people in them? In this case, is it really so unrealistic that a black woman might achieve 00 status? Are there black women in England? Staggeringly, there are! So, let’s perhaps have them represented. You might say “I have no issue with black women being represented in film, just not this one”. If you say that, then yes, you have an issue with black women in film. So, yes, having women and black women in films does make them better and it serves the story to represent the world as a place where women and particularly black women exist.
Is this to please the SJWs? I hope so. Because there’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting equality or representation. And if they are making decisions to please the shifting status quo, then I’m all for it. If to you a SJW is someone who wants to change things for the sake of change, who wants to ruin things by making the world PC, then you’ve completely missed the point of these movements. It doesn’t ruin anything to have the world represented as it is, or as it should be. Giving women and women of colour an equal place in our media - particularly film - isn’t ruining anything but an entrenched sexism and racism. Please, by all means cling to that if you must, but at least own it. Don’t pretend it’s anything other than racism and misogyny hiding behind a translucent argument.
The cries of racism and misogyny are tired. Wanting equality applies both ways; as in wanting black representation to be EARNED, instead of piggybacking on already established white characters. Theft is theft, regardless of the trumped up reasons for it.
This video is also fun - it once again pretty much summaries that this story is not the end of the word:
It's nice to see people having a fun, relaxed conversation about this story.
The cries are not tired and they will not be tired until racists and misogynists stop being the assholes and pretending their arguments are anything other than what they are. Black representation needs to be earned? You really wrote that? You’d say that to a black man or woman’s face?
How are they piggybacking off established white characters when their race is entirely incidental to their character? That makes no sense. How has an entirely new black female character not earned representation? Having Felix or Moneypenny played by black actors is theft to you? Do you hear yourself? Stamping your feet and insisting that you don’t want black actors playing roles because they’re traditionally played by white actors? And you say the cries of racism are tired.
This is disturbing stuff.
Yeah, it’s fascinating how people still can’t grasp the concept she isn’t the ‘New Bond’.
I do think it’s probably true, it just feels instinctively where they’d take it, but there’s also a part of me that wonders whether someone at the Mail has spun the whole thing off the back of fan speculation.
Probably but no one cares pretty much
Isn't this what people want who cares about Bond. Just having fun ;)
It’s deeply disturbing. Black representation needs to be earned? Giving black actors roles previously given to white actors is theft? This is racism pure and simple and there’s no place for it here. Freedom of speech goes without saying, but you don’t get to put a voice to bigotry without repercussion or consequence. This discussion board is not a democracy - it has never claimed to be one - and racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, and hate speech of any kind will not be tolerated. There’s a big ol’ “ban” button for those that want to spout this kind of rhetoric and believe me we will not miss your sorry asses as we throw you out the door.
So if Superman had been a black female for the past 80 years the character would be as successful and globally recognized as it is today? Really? Again, why change the race/gender at all if it doesn't matter?
If that is true, then it will reflect badly on us all.
I wrote this earlier, but I'm happy to write it again; I can't wait to see her on screen.
Hopefully we'll get some great banter between Nomi and Bond.
Same this is just sad